{"id":131567,"date":"2019-07-01T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131567"},"modified":"2019-07-01T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T08:36:45","slug":"afcon-2019-rohr-speaks-on-teams-super-eagles-will-play-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131567","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Rohr speaks on teams Super Eagles will play in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AFCON-2019-Rohr-names-goalkeeper-that-will-start-against-Guinea-gives-reason.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has insisted that they were always going to play a strong team in the Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria were stunned 2-0 in their final Group B fixture at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, a result that means they finished in second place.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time champions will now take on the country that finishes second in Group F, for a place in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can play a good team reagardless of where we finish. We will analyse our future opponents when we know them,\u201d Rohr told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The German also expressed his confidence, that Nigeria can still win the tournament despite the setback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still confident that we can win the AFCON, because we have our injured players back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIghalo and Musa completed 90minutes, which should help our rhythm in attack. Also our left-back Collins is back so we have a fit again squad,\u201d Rohr added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has insisted that they were always going to play a strong team in the Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16. Nigeria were stunned 2-0 in their final Group B fixture at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, a result that means they finished in second place. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7480],"class_list":["post-131567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}